Laura Tacho, CTO at DX, talks about successful cross functionality between engineering and product teams, including roadmapping and identifying value for your business. 
 

The Guest - Laura Tacho, CTO at DX:

Laura Tacho is the CTO at DX, a developer insights platform built specifically for leaders of internal developer productivity and/or platform teams. Laura is also an engineering leadership coach, partnering with software engineering leaders to level up their leadership skills.

Understanding Software Teams to Achieve Smooth Collaboration:

Integrating engineering and product roadmaps is crucial to avoid misalignment and competition between engineering priorities and business objectives. A unified approach ensures that both engineering issues and business priorities are evaluated by the same criteria, facilitating decision-making that benefits the overall business.

A big part of this equation is developer productivity, but measuring it effectively is a  challenging task. Traditional productivity metrics are no longer cutting it, and it is important for companies to prioritise developers' voices and experiences, moving beyond conventional metrics like lines of code, or number of commits, which can be misleading. By involving developers in the structuring of metrics, companies can enable Improved workforce happiness, retention, and a culture of self-improvement. 

Some of the highlights in this episode include:

• The intersection of engineering and product teams 
• The importance of developer productivity
• Strategies and metrics for assessing developer productivity

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